Infant Mortality And Workingclass Child Care 18501899

Infant Mortality and WorkingClass Child Care 18501899 unlocks the hidden history of workingclass child care during the second half of the nineteenth century seeking to challenge those historians who have cast workingclass women as feckless and maternally ignorant. By plotting the lives of northern women whilst they grappled with industrial waged work in the factory in agriculture in nail making and in brick and salt works this book reveals a different picture of northern childcare one which